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1 MR.BIGELOW:This is just what I needed.
SIMON:It is a lovely park,isn't it>
MR.BIGELOW:So tell me,Simon,how did you wind up here a restaurant manager in Boston?
SIMON:Ah!Well,that's a bit of a puzzle to me,as well.
2 MR.BIGELOW:Was your training in restaurants?
SIMON:Oh no!After primary and secondary schools I went to university.
Manchester.Modern languages.
3 MR.BIGELOW:That's a lot of tests.
SIMON:Oh yes,I passed all kinds of exams.
MR.BIGELOW:I was never any good at taking tests.
I barely got through elementary school.
4 MR.BIGELOW:High school was worse.And it was years before I went to college.
And I didn't do very well there either,I'm afraid.
SIMON:Oh,I did well,but there was something missing.
5 SIMON:At the end of the day,I wanted experience that was...
MR.BIGELOW:Hands-on. SIMON:Exactly.
MR.BIGELOW:Find out the way it works in the real world. SIMON:Yes.
6 MR.BIGELOW:So you got a job!
SIMON:NO.I went back to business school for management studies.
MR.BIGELOW:More tests!
1 WENDY:He was talking to Anne.At first I thought he was so mean.
A real snob,you know?
2 SIMON:He'os not,though.He said he barely got through school.
He told me he did really badly at university.
3 WENDY:Well,he learned to run a company somewhere.
He makes a ton of money.
SIMON:That's the thing.He said he was bad at maths.
4 WENDY:At what?
SIMON:Maths.
WENDY:You mean math?
SIMON:We say maths.
WENDY:You must mean all the different maths.
Because I mean the one basic math. SIMON:Whatever.
5 SIMON:But Wendy,listen to this.He told me making money is easy.
He said,"If I buy someting for one dollar,and sell it for two,
I make money from that one per cent difference."
6 WENDY:One per cent?You mean a hundred per cent.
SIMON:Right.The man can't figure a percentage to save his life.
WENDY:Tell me about it.You should see the tip he left me!
1 SHARON:George,would you mind taking care of this for me?
You did such a good job last time.
GEORGE:Sure.I'll do it as soon as I can.
SHARON:Thanks ever so much.See you later. GEORGE:Bye.
2 NINA:George? GEORGE:Yeah?
NINA:What was that all about?
GEORGE:Oh!Sharon just wants me to arrange some fransportation for a guest.
3 NINA:Ah,that's not your job.
GEORGE:She just wants me to help her occasionally.
NINA:She wants you to help her occasionally?
GEORGE:Well... NINA:George,I don't think so.I need you 100%in this office.
GEORGE:Right.
4 NINA:Next time,would you please tell her that you have your own work to do?
GEORGE:I'd better do that now.
But it won't be easy coming up against her southern charm.
NINA:George,why don't you just use that no9rthern charm of yours?
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